Category: Miscellaneous

A chance encounter with Beth on IM led me to dotMoms, a group weblog for mothers where she’s a member. Turns out it was one of the sites mentioned in a recent New York...

Better late than never. (Though earlier would’ve been better.) Darling Alex finally has a website, to match his sister and brother. You know how they say you take fewer pictures with each successive child?...

At the risk of turning this blog into FlixFilter, I have to mention this bit of synchronicity: At an eGullet lunch at Helena’s Hawaiian Food earlier this week, we were talking about Netflix. I...

Promoting tolerance? Accepting diversity? Dirty cartoons? What is this country coming to? Seriously. What is this country coming to? Lately, I’m too disappointed to be disgusted. Meanwhile, I have an awful feeling that this...

Having not watched a movie since October, I went over to Netflix to cancel our much adored, but long neglected, account. Instead, I got sucked back in by a $9.99/month retention offer and distracted...

As online photo memes go, “These are the People in my Neighborhood” is simple and cute. Twelve lines of lyrics (well, if “bor…” counts as a line) plus twelve people on the street equals...

Good news? Surveillance and networking hardware is finally getting so easy to use, anyone can set up a camera and watch a space via any web browser. Bad news? If you’re not careful, the...

“Never shop on an empty stomach and never shop on an empty head,” advises Karl McKeever, one of Britain’s leading visual merchandising consultants, as he explains the “tricks or techniques” retailers use to get...

It was sad enough when he left the show, but now the loss is far greater: Jerry Orbach, a.k.a. Lennie Briscoe, has died. He played the quintessential “jaded cop,” a wisecracking 12-year veteran for...

Waitaminit. Sending out Christmas cards is a domestic task largely the domain of women? Why didn’t I get that memo? Anyway, if you want one from our crowded and cozy home, just send me...

Now that I’m sure I’m in it for the long haul with my new gadget (or my “new mistress,” as my wife likes to say), it’s time to bid farewell to my old friend....

Media commentator and unapologetic cat lover Ian Lind points the way to this Star-Bulletin story by photographer-turned-firefighter Ken Ige, describing how he stumbled into the world of feline custodianship. “So I stood there in...

Don’t tell my wife, but Chris Noth is the latest star in Amazon.com’s great experiment in short-films and blatant product placement. He stars in “Tooth Fairy,” a piece that — seemingly in tribute to his...

“Dictionary publisher Merriam-Webster is out with its list of the 2004 ‘Words of the Year.’ Topping the list by a wide margin is the word “blog,” which is generally used to describe an online...

This is only a test. Blogging from the couch on my new toy with some new software. Does it work? Can you read me now? Good!

For a geek, “anticipation” is having a new gadget delivered at home while you’re at work. My birthday gift to myself is the new PalmOne Treo 650. I had preordered it and everything, and...

As the parent of three small children, two of whom are big fans, there’s no need to guess whether nautical nonsense is on our agenda for this weekend. For the most part, limiting your...

If you’re using Movable Type and held at version 2.661 because of that whole licensing thing, but you’ve been thinking about just biting the bullet and going for 3.x, my advice is: Don’t. Well,...

I’m spending my 30th birthday in Los Angeles. I’m leaving on the red-eye tonight to arrive there Friday morning, just in time for a meeting. Saturday will bring another meeting, followed by a dress-up...

The folly of egg-stage chicken counting, “Dewey Defeats Truman,” the 2000 elections, yada yada yada. Dammit I know better. But so hungry is my soul for even a faint glimmer of light, I pathetically...